Adapter for casket lamps



Feb. 11, 1930. E. E. HlLL' ADAPTER FOR CASKET LAMPS Filed July 14, 1928 gwuwnto'c EdwardEHz'lZ ikma Patented Feb. 11, 1930 l my gyg UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE EDWARD E. HILL, F INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA v ADAPTER FOR CASKET LAMPS Application filed July 14, 1928. Serial No. 292,775.

My invention relates to devices for illumibayonet socket of the proper size to receive nating caskets, and more particularly to an the miniature bulb, not shown, such socket beadapter designed to be used in conjunction ing formed of an insulating sleeve 19 fixed with my casket lamp, such as I have illusupon an insulating body 20 which carries trated in my Patent No. 1,672,317 dated June spaced contacts 21 which engage the contacts 55 5, 1928, and it is an object of the invention to on the bulb. The screw plug is provided with provide means enabling my casket lamp to be a metal tip 22 and a metallic sleeve 23 to which used in a house not provided with electricity, are secured conductors 24 and 25 which form by utilizing a portable source of electricity, electrical connection between the contact eleas for example, a conventional storage batments and the sleeve and tip. Ihe body 20 is co tery, and the addition of a combineo plug and secured in the screw plug 16 by a plastic comsocket which screws into the socket in my position 26 composed of whiting, plaster and lamp, and has a reduced bayonet socket for glue. the reception of a miniature bulb, as for eX- With this construction, my casket lamp may ample a 6 volt, 21 candle power automobile be readily used in a home which is not pro- 65 bulb; all as will be hereinafter more particu- Vided with electricity, and at a very small cost, larly described and claimed. which is the rental price of a storage battery.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, It will be obvious to those skilled in the which are made a part hereof and on which art that various changes may be made in similar reference characters indicate similar my device without departing from the spirit '7 parts, of the invention, and I, therefore, do not limit Figure 1 is a perspective illustrating the myself to what is shown in the drawings and application of my invention, described in the specification, but only as set Figure 2, a diagrammatic view, and forth in the appended claims. Figure 3,alongitudinal section through the Having thus fully described my said in- 75 adapter plug. vention what I claim as new and desire to se- In the drawings reference character 10 ilcure by Letters Patent, is: lustrates a casket upon which is supported 1. A device of the class described comprismy improved casket lamp 11, above referred ing a screw plug hollowed at the rear, a re- 30 to, having a plug 12 at its extremity, which duced bulb socket carried by said screw plug 8! may be screwed into the conventional house set in the hollowed portion of the screw socket for furnishing the source of energy for plug, a plastic composition securing said relighting the lamp 11. As a substitute for the duced socket in position, a pair of longitudisource of power just described, I provide a nally disposed cont ct elements projecting conventional storage battery 13 t0 the poles rearwardly into the sleeve, a metal tip 011 the ,85

of which are attached the terminals 14 from plug, a metallic sleeve about the plug, and

a socket 15 into which the plug 12 may be connections from said contact elements to secured. The power thus furnished is insuilisaid tip and sleeve, substantially as set forth.

cient to operate the ordinary 110 volt lamp. 2. A device of the class described comprisand I therefore provide a lamp of the same ing means for operating an electric casket 90 capacity as the storage battery (usually a lamp by a storage battery comprising a con- 6-8 volt, 21 candle power lamp), and in order nection between the storage battery and the to provide a receiving socket so that the same lamp, an adapter for accommodating a remay be supported in the lamp 11, I provide duced bulb to said lamp including a screw astructure such as I have shown in Figure 3, plug hollowed at the rear, a reduced bulb sockwhich comprises a screw plug 16 having an e11- et carried by said screw plug set in the hollarged corrugated knurled head 17 by means lowed portion of the screw plug, a plastic of which it may be screwed into the lamp composition securing said reduced plug in socket. The screw plug is hollowed out at 18 position, a pair of longitudinally disposed and into such hollowed portion is inserted a contact elements projecting rearwardly into the sleeve, a metal tip on the plug, a metallic sleeve about the plug, and connections from said contact elements to said tip and sleeve, substantially as set forth.

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Indianapolis, Indiana, this twelfth day of July, A. D. nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.

EDWARD E. HILL. 

